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  Controversial Book Looks at "Truth" in Today's Journalism

  February 14 at 5 a.m.

  Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts By Jill Abramson 544 pp. $30 Simon & Schuster You’d be hard pressed to name an industry that the Digital Age has affected more – both positively and negatively – than journalism. Though the days of people getting...

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  7 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Books, Bowls and One Big Night

  January 31 at 5 a.m.

  Having fun this weekend in Houston is as easy as A-B-C. We've got the Amazing Acro-cats and a play about the Academy Awards, a pair of book festivals, and a couple of bowl games, though one of those has gone to the dogs. We also see the return of Stages'...

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  The Story of Alligator Records and its Blues-Centric Label

  January 1 at 4 a.m.

  Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story By Bruce Iglauer and Patrick A. Roberts 336 pp. $30 University of Chicago Press Music business entrepreneurs start record labels for all sorts of reasons, but few have the story of Bruce Iglauer and the blues-centric Alligator Records. Iglauer – in the...

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  Author Warns That Solar Superstorms Could Lead to Extinction Level Events

  Tuesday, December 25, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  With so many things to worry about these days, do we really need another? If it's not ISIS heading north from Honduras or Chinese hacking or Russian tampering, there are still plenty of natural disasters to cause angst in the Bayou City, hurricanes and flooding being at the top of...

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  Ramones Drummer Gabba Gabbas About His Time in the Band

  Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  I Know Better Now: My Life Before, During, and After the Ramones By Richie Ramone with Peter Aaron 324 pp. $29.99 Backbeat Books Part of the deal of being in the Ramones was that you could only appear onstage in the band’s uniform: leather jacket, T-shirt, torn blue jeans, and...

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  Blondie's Chris Stein Switches Out His Guitar for a Camera

  Friday, December 14, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Though he’s best known as the guitarist and a co-founder of Blondie – a well as co-writer on such hits as “Heart of Glass,” “Rapture,” and “Dreaming,” Chris Stein has been an avid and serious photographer just as long as he’s been a musician. With his lens, Stein has captured...